Portugal analyzes propsal for national strategy against terrorism

The Portuguese government analyzed a proposal for a national strategy to combat terrorism on Tuesday, according to Portuguese news agency Lusa.

"The national strategy to combat terrorism is the commitment of mobilization, coordination and cooperation of all national structures ..." reads a press statement by the prime minister's cabinet, following a meeting by the high council of internal security.

The strategy is necessary due to terrorism's "evolutionary, inconstant and imponderable" nature, according to the note, adding that this reality demanded a permanent "evaluation, adaptation, revision and actualization."

Concern regarding terrorism has escalated in Europe following several attacks in France, at the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish supermarket.

Portugal's Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho has called for "coordination of means and cooperation of forces" to combat global terrorism and held a meeting at parliament with all parties last month.

Last Saturday, Passos Coelho said the government would not alter the law of nationality due to the identification of jihads, but said he didn't exclude making "small alterations," including more rigor in granting nationality acquired by naturalization. Enditem